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Pastor for 30 years.

• D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones on the new paganism

  By Dan Fabricatore, Ph.D. on February 6, 2010 • ( 4 )

  I am reading Iain Murray’s two-volume biography on D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. If I were to teach a class on pastoral ministry, I would make it required reading. Lloyd-Jones was in many ways, years ahead of his time. He pastored in… Read More ›

• A sobering reminder: the fate of the unbeliever

  By Dan Fabricatore, Ph.D. on January 29, 2010 • ( 0 )

  I am almost finished working my way through 2 Thessalonians as I prepare to preach the epistle in a few weeks. I work on sermons several months before I preach them. I like to have studied a book completely before… Read More ›

• Rereading a classic: Mere Christianity

  By Dan Fabricatore, Ph.D. on January 14, 2010 • ( 3 )

  On Thursday mornings, several men from our church meet at 6:30 am for what we call a theological discussion group. We have read a variety of theological texts that have included The Gagging of God by D.A. Carson, Let the… Read More ›

• John Newton on the believer’s inability because of remaining sin

  By Dan Fabricatore, Ph.D. on January 5, 2010 • ( 0 )

  John Newton, who wrote “Amazing Grace,” is one of my favorite writers. He had a wonderful insight into the heart of man and I find him to be a physician of the soul. In writing of the inability of man… Read More ›

• My book on μορφή is published

  By Dan Fabricatore, Ph.D. on December 31, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  For anyone interested, my Ph.D. dissertation has been published. It is titled, Form of God, Form of a Servant: An Examination of the Greek Noun μορφή in Philippians 2:6-7, published by UPA, 2010. A local establishment ordered a handful of… Read More ›

• Meditations for the coming new year

  By Dan Fabricatore, Ph.D. on December 30, 2009 • ( 4 )

  Each year around this time many of us are prone to contemplate the past year with its ups and downs, and then look to the New Year with great anticipation.  This is because the New Year offers us a kind… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas

  By Dan Fabricatore, Ph.D. on December 25, 2009 • ( 0 )

  μορφῇ θεοῦ … μορφὴν δούλου (Phil 2:6-7)   Christ, by highest heaven adored, Christ, the everlasting Lord, late in time behold him come, offspring of a Virgin’s womb. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see: hail, the incarnate Deity, pleased as… Read More ›

• Winter wonderland!

  By Dan Fabricatore, Ph.D. on December 19, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  We are in the midst of a major snowstorm that is to dump between 12 and 24 inches of snow here in the metropolitan DC area. This picture of the front of our house was taken at about 12 inches… Read More ›

• The fruit of affliction

  By Dan Fabricatore, Ph.D. on December 19, 2009 • ( 0 )

  If you are looking for a helpful book to give a believer who is suffering, I can’t recommend enough John Piper’s work, The Hidden Smile of God: The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and… Read More ›

• Mannheim Steamroller Christmas

  By Dan Fabricatore, Ph.D. on November 30, 2009 • ( 4 )

  

  Permit me a light post. Last week was my wife’s birthday and we went to hear Mannheim Steamroller in concert downtown at the Warner theatre in our nation’s capital. They are an instrumental music group known more for their multiple Christmas… Read More ›